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The Virginia Gazette
Williamsburg, Virginia
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On June 2 in Kittery, a thunderstorm with lightning struck Mr. Joseph Fry and others in a house, shattering the building and causing extensive damage to Fry's clothing, minor skin injury, and burns.
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This day in the afternoon we had a storm of thunder: when Mr. Joseph Fry of this town, and several others, were struck with lightning (being in a house which is much shattered) it made a breach thro' Mr. Fry's clothes on his shoulder the bigness of a dollar, set his shirt on fire, split the seam of his coat, broke some skin on his arm, and left it black, and past into the seam of his breeches, and split it open, marking the same as it went, cut off his garter, tearing his stocking to rags, and leaving a sulphurous matter on it, taking away one quarter of his shoe, and leaving the like mark all the way.
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Kittery
Event Date
June 2.
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mr. fry suffered a breach in clothes the size of a dollar on shoulder, shirt set on fire, coat seam split, skin broken and blackened on arm, breeches seam split, garter cut off, stocking torn to rags with sulphurous matter, quarter of shoe taken away; house much shattered; several others struck but details unspecified.
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During an afternoon thunderstorm, lightning struck Mr. Joseph Fry and several others inside a house in Kittery, causing the described damages.